Prelude / Prologue

I never knew how to speak to you.

I know I’ve always been like this.

I lived a life that I wanted to, but there’s so much that I missed.

Lean a little closer, Let me tell you something old:

All that fire inside you will someday leave you cold.

So listen to this story, the one you thought you knew:

When you try to kill your weakness,

You can lose your goodness too.

It’s such a strange feeling - falling

Darling cause I know what waits for me.

And everywhere I look I see you, I feel you with me.

Your shadow haunts me.

This is the story of the Tower of Babel.

Yeah this is the myth of Prometheus.

If there’s any tale worth telling of human bloody nature,

It’s this here, it’s this: My Testament.

We lived our lives in darkness until I shined a little light,

And we learned to live as gods in eternity.

But Olympus always falls and chaos reinstates -

For chaos is the constant that always waits.

It’s such a strange feeling - falling  Darling cause I know what waits for me.  And everywhere I look I see you, I feel you with me.  Your shadow haunts me.

An Exposition

A wise man once told me, ‘You’ll try to control

What you’re feeling, and fail - but darling, learn to love yourself.’

Is this all that I’m left with? Oh, is this all I am?

One crisis then another; one fuck-up then another.

Oh please please please, get me, get me - someone.

I’m on my knees. I’m helpless, I’m hopeless.

All our lives we all wait to wake up from

All the time we live waiting

All I’ve ever wanted from this life is always changing.

A thousand years from now, a million lives between,

I remember every single love, happy to have held them.

All our lives we all wait to wake up from

All the time we live waiting

An Exposition

Take it in and wear it out - this memory fades in silent shouts.

All lovers and your favourite lies,

All vanished visions; sights for sightless eyes.

Everything, yeah everything is nothing like it used to be.

Yeah this is all we’re left, there’s nothing saving us.

I feel I’m falling all alone, but we’re all in this together -

So come along - fall with me.

If every single living thing all ends up just the same as me,

Then life is but a dream, I guess - let’s dream away the hopelessness.

Oh everything, yeah everything is nothing like it used to be.

Yeah this is all we’re left, there’s nothing saving us.

I feel I’m falling all alone when we’re all in this together -

Oh come along, fall with me.

Sweet Nothing

You may think I’m crazy, and yeah - I may be crazy:

But what’s the point of living if we’re living to a point?

Existence is coincidence with tiny shreds of consequence -

But still at best we’re all still destined to fade away.

But in the deep, I’ve seen the answer.

My god, my hands are shaking.

The future’s waking up.

And now I find myself sitting in a darkened room,

with screens and screens and screens - and Mary.

I guess we’re going steady, though I’m not quite sure I’m ready,

But life is for the living or you’re dead before you die.

So I felt the fear and blocked it out.

I gave it all I got.

But I know I’m not the kind of guy you probably imagined.

But in the deep, I’ve seen the answer

My god, my hands are shaking

The future’s waking up

All through my life, this truth was calling me

with every beat and blow, with every blind and faulty step

I took along the way.

A final wave goodbye to history

aside discovery of everlasting everything.

Now all at once I see the world alive inside the palm of my hand,

and now I know the future’s deep inside us - it’s always been there.

Through all the death I’ve swept aside, there’s nothing left but you and I.

Please darlings - take my hand.

The future’s waking up.

Sweet Nothing

If every day was all the same, would you even wake for it?

You’d better get your story straight, get those ducks all in a row.

It’s like a dream inside a dream, but God, for me:

Inside I’m screaming. I’m sitting on my hands.

When every life is on the line, but still it’s mine I’m making,

The message is the plan - and this is what it says:

Boy, move it. Boy, just prove it.

Sell us endless days of doing nothing, oh sweet nothing.

Boy, it’s all we ever wanted.

This dancing with the devil, it never felt so awful.

It never felt so tasteful. Oh, see me - I’m so graceful.

Do you hear me? Are you listening?

Prick up those ears - I need your undivided.

Yeah life is calling, America is waiting.

Baby, please just do as I do,

Just one foot in front of the other.

Yeah. You’ve got it.

Boy, move it. Boy, just prove it.

Sell us endless days of doing nothing, oh sweet nothing.

Boy, it’s all we ever wanted.

It breaks me. It’s breaking me up.

Just a little taste.

Do You Want To Live?

Are you still with me?

Oh, what a relief - I swear I’ll be brief.

Cause I think we all agree, in this company of friends:

The means here are justified by the end.

This life’s a party, an endless party -

The truth far better than pretend.

When all you dare to think about is

how to keep this keeping on -

You better find your feet, you better grab the rail,

and baby - sing along:

Do you want to live, or do you wanna die?

It’s so simple: What’s it gonna be?

You can tell yourself the truth or tell yourself a lie -

It makes no difference to me.

People, people, people.

This is a call to action. It ain’t no drill.

It’s as yes-or-no as questions get:

Do you want the red or do you want the blue pill?

Now I know what makes you tick along.

I’ve got this sneaking suspicion:

You’ll come with me, you’ll sing this song.

You’ll step right up, you’ll dive right in - come on.

Do you want to live, or do you wanna die?

It’s so simple: What’s it gonna be?

You can tell yourself the truth or tell yourself a lie -

It makes no difference to me.

Lord It Over Me

Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord it over me.

The first time I got mine I lost myself, and in that sweet day

I held the divine in the palm of my hand -

Oh God, it was too good to be true.

So let me see, but see me darling, take me and shake me up.

Yeah, you reminded me there was still a heart left to break,

and babe you broke it clean in two.

Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord it over me.

Though the pain, I’ll do it again, I’d try it again, I’d say it again:

And every lonely night I’ll swear I’m right.

And if you think you saw me blink - you’re wrong.

Be gracious, for the truth - it’ll set you free.

See folks: You need me more than you wish you do,

but believe me - I need you too.

Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord it over me.

The Sorrow

So here we are again. I tell you, ‘You haven’t changed.’

You turn away and say, ‘The sorrow’s too much’ -

And when I try to take your hand, you cry.

Oh, I wasted time to tell you I could never even know

all the things that I would never try to feel - but now they show.

You said, ‘If you love me, you’ll let me go.’

Oh, it took a life to let you in, and it takes the same to start again.

I’m better.

I’d give it all to try again and I’d try and give you everything.

I’m better.

Everything, Everyone

Here’s the life I leave behind me: May it rest in peace.

And the lives that have left me: May peace also be with you.

What good is life eternal when it’s lived all alone?

When the only voice you ever hear is your own?

Pain and joy, rise and fall:

What I felt - I felt it all.

There is always something more.

There’s never ever nothing.

Even when I am gone, life itself carries on.

There’s never ever nothing.

My memory, my everything: All a scattered mess of time.

A life behind, untold ahead - oh lay me down, this weary head.

So here’s to Death and to his void!

Here’s to morbid mortality!

What a life, what a joy, what a thrill to have been!

Pain and joy, rise and fall:

What I felt - I felt it all.

There is always something more.

There’s never ever nothing.

Even when I am gone, life itself carries on.

There’s never ever nothing.

Save yourself, remember me.

Love yourself, remember me.

Trust yourself, remember me.

Love yourself, remember me

To everything and everyone:

Please forgive me.

I miss you.

I love you.